Online shop software..

Gav · 17 Aug 2011 at 09:02

Have any of you guys had any dealings with building online stores? What do you find is the best package to handle it?

I have been looking at this: http://www.bigcommerce.com/

Any thoughts?

Gav · 17 Aug 2011 at 11:06

Bigcommerce is designed around their Interspire package. If you do outgrow the hosted version you can purchase the non-hosted version (not cheap) and host your own..

I'm having a play with it at the moment and I am quite impressed with the amount of customisation you can do. The only downside I can see is that it doesnt link directly with sage accounting packages, only quickbooks..

Gav · 17 Aug 2011 at 13:03

quite a bit by the looks of things. You have full access to the layout, html and stylesheets and you can upload any custom files that you need.

Gav · 17 Aug 2011 at 13:51

The main reason for looking at BigCommerce is it's ability to integrate with Ebay and Facebook.. It's pretty much a necessity these days..

Heres what I have been playing with so far..

http://evolutionvt.mybigcommerce.com/index.php

Gav · 17 Aug 2011 at 14:00

if you can export from turbolister to a csv file (or similar) then you can import that into BigCommerce.

You may need to upload the images seperately though as they are hosted on ebays servers..

Gav · 17 Aug 2011 at 16:03

Izi said:
If you google Ecommerce Solution by BigCommerce you can see some websites created by the system.

They look fairly amateurish, but then you do get what you pay for.

Thats down to the person building the site.. not the software :-)

Have a look at cubecart etc... some of the sites built using that software are exactly the same..

Gav · 18 Aug 2011 at 00:40

phil-k said:
I would want to export and upload TL files that are on my pc not from Ebay complete with pictures.
I did have a look at a spreadsheet exported into Ebids upload prog, but TL gives a lot of the pictures the same file number, just putting them in lots of sub directories.
I could upload all the picture folders to a web site but its not ideal.
I suppose I would have to have a site and upload software built especially and I bet that would cost a few grand

you can export your listings from TL into a CSV file : http://pages.ebay.com/turbo_lister/csv.html

You can then import the csv file into BigCommerce: https://support.bigcommerce.com/questions/718/How+do+I+import+images+when+importing+products?